Out of the many things that we are to separate from as Christians there are some that we should just really stay away from, gambling being one of them. Now many people would ask why gambling? What makes it so important, its just a past time or something fun to do and maybe make a little money in the process. Well the truth is that Gambling is wicked and leads to nothing good! It effects and destroys pretty much anyone and everyone associated with it.

One of the things that it does it goes against Gods plan for making and earning money. In II Thessalonians 3:10 it says “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.” Gods plan was that we work for make and earn our own money, and gambling is the very opposite of that. Gambling is a way that people try and get and make money by doing nothing at all but play a game or pulling a lever. He doesn’t want to work for it he wants to get it easy. But one of the sad this is, is that he will pay out hundreds of dollars and in the end most times have made next to nothing when he leaves or worst and most cases lost everything. Nothing will lead to poverty and broken homes faster then gambling will. When you gamble the only people who really make any money is the people running the casino, everyone else loses and makes nothing.

Another issue about gambling is that the only way to make any money is to take money away from someone else’s pocket and put it into yours without working for it. So in a way you are stealing from someone else for your own gain. Which we are not to steal, it is commanded to do so in the Bible in the Ten Commandments and we see it throughout the Bible that God is against stealing. He killed some who stole, He made the whole nation of Israel suffer when someone took garments from Jericho, and many...

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